by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
L/Cpl J. F. Kerr: Just a few lines to let you know I am safe. We have just come out of the hottest fight I have ever been in and I am pleased to say we have had a win and did great work in capturing Pozieres. We all got terribly cut up and it will be a very long time...
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
In May 1918, Australia’s five divisions were united into a single corps on the Western Front – the largest in the Allied forces. Lt General John Monash was named its commander after an extraordinary military career and despite an attempt by historian Charles Bean,...
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
As the German armies swept into northern France, it seemed nothing could save Paris. Instead of capturing the City of Light the Germans swung to the south-east, hoping for a crushing victory but instead finding its widening front exposed. The Allied defenders fell...
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
New Zealand’s worst day on the Western Front The 1917 Third Battle of Ypres was a series of Allied assaults over three months through August, September and into October. They culminated in the pitiless battles of Passchendaele, the first on October 12 and the second...
by Mitch Brunke | Jan 31, 2020
March 1918 German offensive Russia withdraws from war with 15.8 million casualties on the Eastern Front. Spurred on by the end of the war on the Russian front, the German Spring Offensive began in March, 1918, In a massive onslaught known collectively as the...
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